[SLE] XFree86-4.01, NVIDIA drivers, sax2
I think I'm close, but am still having some problems here. [SuSE 6.4; Graphic Blaster Riva TNT (16 MB) video card] Here's a summary of what I have done so far: - Installed Xfree86-4.01 obtained from the xfree.org site. Used their install program & all seemed to work fine. - Used Xfree86 -configure to create an initial XF86Config file. Had to change the mouse settings, but that worked fine. - Started X and got into KDE, but the colors and resolution were awful (640 x 480 or something like that; washed out colors....) - Tried using sax2 but couldn't get it running (needed 2 other files) - Installed the new NVIDIA drivers; used the source rpms and built new rpms on my box; installed these new rpms and it seemed to work fine; I believe I have fixed all the problems with the old libGL.so and/or libMesa files as pointed out in the install instructions (and in Tom's Hardware guide). In fact after renaming some of the old files, I reinstalled the NVIDIA drivers using the - -force option, and they installed without a problem. - I am able to load Nvdriver and agpgart modules (it's an AGP card) with no problems - The background picture (KDE theme) now looks better, but the resolution is still wrong. - Got sax2 running and this is where I start having problems In sax2 I picked the appropriate driver (nvidia), picked a monitor (not my exact monitor, but close - similar to what I used in sax and Xfree 3.3.6). Picked a color depth (32 million) and resolution (1024 x 768) - same as I had used on 3.3.6 w/ the svga server. When sax2 tries to start the xserver, I get a summary page with lots of warnings about font paths, and the following 2 errors (not exact wording - but close) The color depth chosen is not supported by the Nvidia driver. Screens were found, but not with configurations that would work (or something like that). I tried several other color depths w/o any better luck. In fact, sometimes when I try to start the xserver, the screen goes black (sometimes then goes immediately into powersave mode) and I have to reboot (ctl + alt + backspace didn't work). I then manually added modelines to the Xfree86Config file (as well as monitor info) from my old 3.3.5 config file and restarted X. Didn't have any effect. The resolution was still low. Someone has suggested I try the xf86config utility and I have not yet tried that. I had looked at it once previously and did not proceed for some reason (I think that I did not see my chip set in there or something - hey it was 3:00 am, what can I say....:-) ) This is getting way too long. I would appreciate any other ideas or suggestions on how to get this configured properly. (Please cc any response to mdcleary@intrex.net mailto:mdcleary@intrex.net as well). Thanks, Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 Research Triangle Park, NC -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
"Cleary, Mike" wrote:
I think I'm close, but am still having some problems here. [SuSE 6.4; Graphic Blaster Riva TNT (16 MB) video card]
I was chasing info on this very thing for a student today!
According to the XFree page on SuSE, the current Nvidia drivers only
support 16bpp colour.
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and I can only get 24bpp from a 32M TNT2 card, mind you I am more than happy with 16 anyway..... Pete On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, you wrote:
"Cleary, Mike" wrote:
I think I'm close, but am still having some problems here. [SuSE 6.4; Graphic Blaster Riva TNT (16 MB) video card]
I was chasing info on this very thing for a student today! According to the XFree page on SuSE, the current Nvidia drivers only support 16bpp colour.
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Cleary, Mike writes:
I think I'm close, but am still having some problems here. [SuSE 6.4; Graphic Blaster Riva TNT (16 MB) video card]
Here's a summary of what I have done so far:
- Installed Xfree86-4.01 obtained from the xfree.org site. Used their install program & all seemed to work fine.
- Used Xfree86 -configure to create an initial XF86Config file. Had to change the mouse settings, but that worked fine.
- Started X and got into KDE, but the colors and resolution were awful (640 x 480 or something like that; washed out colors....)
- Tried using sax2 but couldn't get it running (needed 2 other files)
- Installed the new NVIDIA drivers; used the source rpms and built new rpms on my box; installed these new rpms and it seemed to work fine; I believe I have fixed all the problems with the old libGL.so and/or libMesa files as pointed out in the install instructions (and in Tom's Hardware guide). In fact after renaming some of the old files, I reinstalled the NVIDIA drivers using the - -force option, and they installed without a problem.
- I am able to load Nvdriver and agpgart modules (it's an AGP card) with no problems
- The background picture (KDE theme) now looks better, but the resolution is still wrong.
- Got sax2 running and this is where I start having problems
In sax2 I picked the appropriate driver (nvidia), picked a monitor (not my exact monitor, but close - similar to what I used in sax and Xfree 3.3.6). Picked a color depth (32 million) and resolution (1024 x 768) - same as I had used on 3.3.6 w/ the svga server. When sax2 tries to start the xserver, I get a summary page with lots of warnings about font paths, and the following 2 errors (not exact wording - but close)
When I configured using sax2 I used the driver nv that came with xfree86 4.0. I am lucky that my monitor is always present in the list, but maybe you should try one of the standard monitors. When I configured everything in sax2, I edited the /etc/X11/XF86Config file by hand to add the nvidia driver.
The color depth chosen is not supported by the Nvidia driver. Screens were found, but not with configurations that would work (or something like that).
I tried several other color depths w/o any better luck. In fact, sometimes when I try to start the xserver, the screen goes black (sometimes then goes immediately into powersave mode) and I have to reboot (ctl + alt + backspace didn't work). I then manually added modelines to the Xfree86Config file (as well as monitor info) from my old 3.3.5 config file and restarted X. Didn't have any effect. The resolution was still low.
This might be because all of your video memory might not be detected. Look through the startup log and see if everything looks good for your card.
Someone has suggested I try the xf86config utility and I have not yet tried that. I had looked at it once previously and did not proceed for some reason (I think that I did not see my chip set in there or something - hey it was 3:00 am, what can I say....:-) )
This is getting way too long. I would appreciate any other ideas or suggestions on how to get this configured properly. (Please cc any response to mdcleary@intrex.net mailto:mdcleary@intrex.net as well).
Thanks,
Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 Research Triangle Park, NC --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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